The system searched and said: "Historically, there is a rule of using silver as a substitute for service. As long as you have money, you don't have to go."
Man Bao's eyes lit up, and he told her parents about this good idea.
Both Lao Zhoutou and Qian Shi didn't understand how she knew all this after sleeping.
However, the old Zhou felt that the child had always been smart, and she only thought of it herself, so he said, "The family doesn't have so much money. Is it possible for a family like ours to serve with money? Even the village head's family has to serve." .”
Qian was more careful with Man Bao, and explained in detail: "I heard that the money for one service can marry a wife. For a family like ours, it takes at least four or five years to earn enough money to marry a wife. It is only with a large family that you can save this kind of money. In your grandfather’s generation, you would have to spend half your life’s savings to marry your father a daughter-in-law.”
Man Bao's attention was instantly diverted, and he became happy, "Father, it turns out that you spent all the money of your grandparents when you married your mother."
Man Bao has never met her grandparents, but during the festivals, especially during the Ching Ming Festival, her parents often mention her grandparents to them. In her father's words, this is remembering the ancestors. Only by remembering one's ancestors can one Do not forget the original.
Keke said, this is called ancestor worship.
Large families record the deeds of their ancestors in their genealogy, and later generations can trace their ancestors by simply looking through the genealogy. But the vast majority of people pass on the deeds of their ancestors through word of mouth.
There are not many families who can record their deeds into their genealogy or genealogy.
When Man Bao heard it, she secretly made up her mind that when she learned more characters, she would record the deeds of her parents in the family tree in the future, so that her parents would be the first generation of their ancestors with deeds.
Man Bao likes to listen to the stories of the ancestors the most, so she looked at her parents eagerly with her small face.
Seeing her bright eyes, Mrs. Qian knew what she was thinking, couldn't help but nodded her nose, and said with a smile: "Yes, even if all the money is spent, the bride price is not much, your mother and I have to pay for it as soon as we enter the door." Have a hard time."
Old Zhou turned around and smiled at her flatteringly.
Qian Shi was looked at by Man Bao's bright eyes, which also brought back some memories, and said sadly: "Actually, life is okay at the beginning, but it's just bad luck. I was just pregnant with your eldest brother for a few months. Our family I was drafted, first your grandfather went to serve, but your grandfather was sick, and your father took over. At that time, the county magistrate had an even worse choice. It was just in time for the busy spring. Your grandfather was sick, and your father If I'm not at home, I will go to the field with your grandma with my big belly, and I just planted all our land."
Old Zhou Tou couldn't help but said: "At that time, most of the people who served in the army would go to half-life, and the county magistrate... oh~"
Man Bao was very curious, "Father, what are you going to do in the military?"
"Dig soil, repair water conservancy, and strengthen dams."
She was a little puzzled, "Is it more tiring than doing farm work?"
"What's the same?" Old Zhou said: "I work at home, take a break when I'm tired, go home to fill up a bite when I'm hungry, and hide under the shade of a tree to rest when the sun is hot, and wait until the sun is not so vicious. At home, no matter how poor you are, all you need to do is have water to drink, a piece of cake to eat, and serve in the army, so you can’t just do whatever you want.”
Old Zhou Tou said: "If you have to go to work early in the morning, you can't spare too much effort. If you are too hard on foreign work, the whip of the messenger will be beaten down."
"Breakfast is basically a small piece of cake. Not to mention adults who work hard like us, even a baby like you can't get enough to eat. Everyone has to bring their own dry food and eat it together, but there are also people who are poor. The dry food I brought was not thick enough, so I had to save it, and how many people died on the dam because of this province."
As far as Lao Zhou is concerned, the reason why people are always dying during military service is that the work is tiring, but there are also many times when everyone does hard work. Not tired.
In the final analysis, still can not rest and eat short.
When they robbed the sky again, they avoided the hour when the sun was at its most venomous, and there was enough water, and the food in the house was as much as possible for the people in the field to eat.
After the old Zhou finished speaking, he looked down at the girl with clean eyes, and he felt that he had said something to the child that he shouldn't have said.
So he patted her on the head and said: "This is an adult's business, your child should go to school."
Man Bao felt a little depressed when she went to school with a small bookcase on her back. She felt that the county magistrate was very bad.
In the past, when her brothers went to build houses for the villagers, they provided enough food for them.
Bai Shanbao rested all day yesterday, so he was very happy. His mother even made him delicious snacks, and he specially left two yuan for Manbao.
He gave the snacks to Man Bao and said, "Your home's candy is also delicious."
Then he looked at her eagerly.
Man Bao took the dim sum and ate it. Because he had something on his mind, he didn't hear the voice of his words, so he nodded perfunctorily.
Seeing this, Bai Shanbao was unhappy, but he couldn't ask Man Bao to give him candy, so he asked, "What are you thinking, is Xiu Mu unhappy?"
Man Bao sighed like a little adult: "My third brother is going to serve in the military."
Don't look at Bai Shanbao knows more than Man Bao, and reads more books than Man Bao, he really doesn't know what serving is.
So he asked, and knowing that serving in the military is the obligation of all families, he scratched his head and said, "Then my family also wants to serve in the military?"
Man Bao said as it should: "Of course, how many males are there in your family?"
Bai Shanbao said: "It's just me."
Man Bao looked at him sympathetically, "Then you are pitiful, you have to go to serve."
Bai Shanbao was a little anxious and a little excited, feeling like I was an adult, but also felt that the unknown was scary.
Bai Shanbao said: "I have to go back and ask my grandmother."
Man Bao disliked it, "It will take a long time, let's ask Mr. Mr. He knows a lot of things."
So the two children went to ask Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang didn't expect the two children to have such a wide range of attention, and they have already paid attention to labor. After thinking about it, he sent the two children back to study, and decided to give them the answer at noon.
The two children ran back to study.
At noon, Mr. Zhuang took the two children to the yard to eat and cook a small stove.
If you want to talk about labor, you have to talk about taxation, national construction, and the county magistrate's performance inspection, etc...
Of course, since the two children were still young, Mr. Zhuang did not follow the scriptures, but told them with examples, "The country is like a big family, and you are also members of the big family. You eat, drink, and dress. The main house is your home." Doesn’t someone have to do the work to help you make the rice you eat, the water you drink, the clothes you wear and the houses you live in?”
This is very simple and easy to understand, and the two children nodded repeatedly.
Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard and smiled, "Then do you want to give money to these workers?"
The two children continued to nod, and they understood the truth.
Mr. Zhuang said: "That's it, the country is the same, it needs people to work, it has to give money, and if it wants to give money, it has to have money first, so we have to pay taxes; it also allocates resources, for example, the eldest son's family There was a disaster, but the second son’s house was full of grain, so as a mother, she had to take some grain from the second son’s house and send it to the eldest son, so that his family could get through this difficult time first...”
Mr. Zhuang started with a brief introduction to the state's institutions, which were briefly mentioned above. When he talked about the post of county magistrate, he went into more detail, so he talked about taxes and labor.
Both Man Bao and Bai Shanbao listened with great interest, and soon forgot the time.